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CVE-2007-5116

Buffer overflow in the polymorphic opcode support in the Regular Expression Engine (regcomp.c) in Perl 5.8 allows context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code by switching from byte to Unicode (UTF) characters in a regular expression.

  • Published: Nov 8, 2007
  • Updated: Apr 13, 2023
  • CVE: CVE-2007-5116
  • Severity: High
  • Exploit:

CVSS v2:

  • Severity: High
  • Score: 7.5
  • AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CWEs:

Software From Fixed in
larry_wall / perl 5.8.0 5.8.0.x
larry_wall / perl 5.8.1 5.8.1.x
larry_wall / perl 5.8.3 5.8.3.x
larry_wall / perl 5.8.4 5.8.4.x
larry_wall / perl 5.8.4.1 5.8.4.1.x
larry_wall / perl 5.8.4.2 5.8.4.2.x
larry_wall / perl 5.8.4.2.3 5.8.4.2.3.x
larry_wall / perl 5.8.4.3 5.8.4.3.x
larry_wall / perl 5.8.4.4 5.8.4.4.x
larry_wall / perl 5.8.4.5 5.8.4.5.x
larry_wall / perl 5.8.6 5.8.6.x
mandrakesoft / mandrake_multi_network_firewall 2.0 2.0.x
openpkg / openpkg current current.x
redhat / enterprise_linux 1.0 1.0.x